Frontend Weekly Digest #419 (16–22 June 2025)

Web Dev

• Bluesky Likes Web Components
• You’re not a front-end developer until you’ve…
• Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
• How to use the Interest Invoker API for better, more accessible UX
• Baseline Newly Available: Stay on Top of New Web Features
• Better together: Developing web apps with Astro and Alpine

• Tools
  • Biome v2 is officially out
  • What’s new in DevTools, Chrome 138
  • Frontend devs: Here’s how to get the most out of Cursor
  • Vite’s Creator on a Unified JavaScript Toolchain and Vite+
• Effects
  • The Future of React Native Graphics: WebGPU, Skia, and Beyond
  • Coding a 3D Audio Visualizer with Three.js, GSAP & Web Audio API
  • Building an Infinite Marquee Along an SVG Path with React & Motion

CSS

• Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape
• Scope in CSS
• Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes
• Color Everything in CSS
• CSS Color Functions
• CSS Cascade Layers Vs. BEM Vs. Utility Classes: Specificity Control
• How to Keep Up With New CSS Features
• How to truncate text in CSS (single and multi-line)
• A guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS

JavaScripts

• JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
• A Better API for the Resize Observer
• TC39 Advances Nine JavaScript Proposals, Including Array.fromAsync, Error.isError, and using

• React
  • Bringing React’s <ViewTransition> to vanilla JS
  • 8 reasons your Next.js app is slow — and how to fix them
• Angular
  • Angular Signals: A New Mental Model for Reactivity, Not Just a New API
  • Angular 19 Standalone Components: Build Faster, Simpler Apps Without NgModules

Memes